Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.



Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.



I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.



We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend



I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.



Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.



In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light.In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.



You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.



You can kill the body but not the spirit.



It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle, something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.



... not that his face was much lined, but all the blood and colour seemed to have faded from his body, and even his eyes, which last he kept usually closed, as though the light distressed him. There was an unspeakable degree of slyness in his expression, which kept me ill at ease; he seemed to lie there with his arms folded, like a spider waiting for prey. His speech was very deliberate and courteous, but scarce louder than ...



In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.



Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.



Wine is bottled poetry.



The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.








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